The Platinum Divas perform during the parade near Five Points Neighborhood, Sunday, June 15, 2025, in Denver. People gathered for a parade to celebrate Juneteenth. (Rebecca Slezak/Special to The Denver Post)
Denver’s Juneteenth Parade marched through the Five Points neighborhood, kicking off the Juneteenth Music Festival on Sunday, June 15, 2025. Juneteenth celebrates the day African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom, two years after the 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.